Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Drew, maybe wear the soft collar while planting? Maybe it would provide some support and you won't hurt as bad afterwards.

A fine idea, and I was wearing it...who knows. Planted for three more hours this morning until sprinkles started, could have kept going but figured
take it a little easier. Got a lot more cabbages planted plus some lettuce.
I'm guessing we will get enough rain tonight I'll have to push back tilling the fields until the end of the week. Then the collards have really got to be planted. Have over a thousand collard seedlings to plant. Might look for some help to do that... Then I do the rest with seeds and a small planter.

Just going to chill for rest of day. Annual physical tomorrow, probably shouldn't eat anything too unhealthy today...
I'm not a football guy so that's not on the menu, including all the normally unhealthy food that goes with it.
I bet Don has something healthy...:thumbsup:

 

[LouNY]

The food is the only thing good today,
I've never been a football fan.
Put an engine on it and I have agood chance of enjoying it.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, maybe setting up the level near the center of the proposed build site, shooting the level to the lower point, then just "add" the subtracted amount from the higher side to the lower side, this will give you "level". I'm not sure if that actually explained my thought / process. When we would try to shoot levels that were that different/sloped, we would go to the middle as a starting point. Easier to figure the mathematical difference.

If there is a 15' difference in the slope of the building footprint, you might want to consider a different spot or turning the building..... That's just a LOT of fill needed. Just MHO. ....or do a walk / drive out basement....mmmmm

The first round of measurements were taken from the highest point in the building footprint, but with about 17' of fall involved, I had to move the tripod lower when the 15' rod was too short to reach from the plane generated by the laser to the ground. Moved it down hill to a previously measured point and finished the first part of the footprint. Put everything away, then decided to add a 30' strip on the low side. Set up at another previously measured point and took those measurements, that's how I ended up with three benchmarks. Then each of those has its own instrument height; it was difficult to get the laser head both level and at the same height due to the slope. So I ended up with three data sets, and the last tripod location was included in each data set. I'm using that to tie all the data into one uniform set. Then since all the data is essentially measuring the air above the footprint, it has to be "inverted" to measure the dirt height above the low point. Then I can make an estimate of just how many cubic yards of earth will be excavated, and that will determine how much of a building permit will be needed. With enough sketches and experiments I'll muddle my way through...:confused2: Hopefully today.

And yes, 17' is a lot of dirt to move, but it also avoids designing an engineered foundation and getting that approved by the county. I'd given some thought to incorporating a "wine cellar" into the layout that could also double as a safe room in a fire or other emergency, but if the building itself is tight, it should serve that purpose without additional preparations or cost. And I can use that dirt to create level parking and work areas around the shop, some of which will be under the 20' and 30' wide awnings that'll run along the long sides.

I suspect things may not go exactly according to plan when the digging starts, though. If they hit rock early, that will cause a shift in the footprint to the downhill side, and maybe even a move to that engineered foundation. Fortunately, the slope drops from about 12% at the top of the hill to more like 5% at the bottom, and the wide awning is on the low side...

I want to get the measurements and proposed layout to the building contractor this week so he can have it looked over by the guys that'll be doing the excavation. I may even end up taking more measurements depending on what they have to say.

 

[lostcreekranch]

The first round of measurements were taken from the highest point in the building footprint, but with about 17' of fall involved, I had to move the tripod lower when the 15' rod was too short to reach from the plane generated by the laser to the ground. Moved it down hill to a previously measured point and finished the first part of the footprint. Put everything away, then decided to add a 30' strip on the low side. Set up at another previously measured point and took those measurements, that's how I ended up with three benchmarks. Then each of those has its own instrument height; it was difficult to get the laser head both level and at the same height due to the slope. So I ended up with three data sets, and the last tripod location was included in each data set. I'm using that to tie all the data into one uniform set. Then since all the data is essentially measuring the air above the footprint, it has to be "inverted" to measure the dirt height above the low point. Then I can make an estimate of just how many cubic yards of earth will be excavated, and that will determine how much of a building permit will be needed. With enough sketches and experiments I'll muddle my way through...:confused2: Hopefully today.

And yes, 17' is a lot of dirt to move, but it also avoids designing an engineered foundation and getting that approved by the county. I'd given some thought to incorporating a "wine cellar" into the layout that could also double as a safe room in a fire or other emergency, but if the building itself is tight, it should serve that purpose without additional preparations or cost. And I can use that dirt to create level parking and work areas around the shop, some of which will be under the 20' and 30' wide awnings that'll run along the long sides.

I suspect things may not go exactly according to plan when the digging starts, though. If they hit rock early, that will cause a shift in the footprint to the downhill side, and maybe even a move to that engineered foundation. Fortunately, the slope drops from about 12% at the top of the hill to more like 5% at the bottom, and the wide awning is on the low side...

I want to get the measurements and proposed layout to the building contractor this week so he can have it looked over by the guys that'll be doing the excavation. I may even end up taking more measurements depending on what they have to say.

Would it be prudent to drill some vertical holes to see depth where rock layer starts at various points inside your boundaries?

 

[ronjhall]

17’ My pole barn is 15’ at the peak.

 

[sodamo]

RNK
Anything useful here?
The National Map

BTW, Numbers will do a 3D graph, just not sure if of any value. I plotted a 12x12 matrix on IPad but couldn’t find how to change scale. It was quite skinny, not proportional and rather pointy.



This looks interesting
Representing Data as a Surface
- MATLAB & Simulink

 

[txdon]

I'm not a football guy so that's not on the menu, including all the normally unhealthy food that goes with it.
I bet Don has something healthy...:thumbsup:

We had the neighborhood tailgate party yesterday evening. I made sure to put my jackfruit sliders at the end of the 50’ table so I have some for today.

Whipper might be getting too much dope. She did something she has never done - just pooped right in the middle of the road with no shame. She always waited for a vacant field before today.

Do any of y’all taking the oil find yourselves doing strange things that of course aren’t age related.

 

[B7510HSD]

We had the neighborhood tailgate party yesterday evening. I made sure to put my jackfruit sliders at the end of the 50’ table so I have some for today.

Whipper might be getting too much dope. She did something she has never done - just pooped right in the middle of the road with no shame. She always waited for a vacant field before today.

Do any of y’all taking the oil find yourselves doing strange things that of course aren’t age related.

Woodstock relived!!

 

[lostcreekranch]

The Day the Music Died Day is always observed on February 3rd. This day we remember the unfortunate and untimely death of singers 22-year-old Buddy Holly, 17-year-old Richie Valens, and 28-year-old J. P. Richardson, aka: “The Big Bopper”. These three artists died in an airplane accident on February 3, 1959, near Clear Lake, Iowa. Their pilot, Roger Peterson, also perished in the crash.
The Day the Music Died was dubbed so by Don McLean’s song “American Pie”

Buddy Holly’s band was on tour and had played at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. They were headed to their next destination in Moorhead, Minnesota. For this leg of their journey, they decided to take a charter plane rather than go with their tour bus. Richardson “The Big Bopper”, had swapped places with Waylon Jennings, taking the latter’s place on the plane and Tommy Allsup had lost his place to Ritchie Valens in a coin toss.
Not long after takeoff, they were no longer able to be reached by radio, and they did not reach their destination. The aircraft was reported missing. The next day, the wreckage was found less than 6 miles northwest of the airport in a cornfield. Poor weather conditions and pilot error were determined, during the investigation, to have been the cause of the pilot losing control of the plane.

This event has echoed through history for over 50 years. Visitors still make the pilgrimage each year to Clear Lake, Iowa, the resort town about 110 miles north of Des Moines, as this was the point of their last concert before the fatal accident.
“The day the music died” is a line in the 1972 Don McLean hit “American Pie.” McLean’s song, which he wrote in the late 1960s and released in 1971, was in part inspired by the tragic event which took the lives of three great musicians and their pilot.
Following are lyrics from the song “American Pie”

But February made me shiver,
With every paper I’d deliver,
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn’t take one more step.
I can’t remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside,
The day the music died.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 58F this morning, overcast, calm wind, intermittent light drizzle/fog. Clouds lifted up early afternoon, wind kicked up in the afternoon, and high temp was 71F. Chapel this morning, made wife breakfast then enter energy conservation mode until nap time. Did watch most of the super bowel, was leaning to the Rams.
RNG good luck with your new shop project.
Mike good luck with the electrifying the run and roof repair.
Don, that is weird about Whipper:confused2:
Prayers for all.